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Chile: General government deficit (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1940–2024 · 55 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdef_GDP

2024
−2.82%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−0.5 pointsfrom −2.27%
Average, 2015–2024
−2.99%10 years
Record high and low
7.95% (2007)low −7.53% (2021)

General government deficit (% of GDP)

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ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.00Forecast
2030-2.04Forecast
2029-1.99Forecast
2028-1.78Forecast
2027-1.88Forecast
2026-2.47Forecast
2025-2.78Forecast
2024-2.82
2023-2.27
20221.36
2021-7.53
2020-7.10
2019-2.73
2018-1.48
2017-2.63
2016-2.66
2015-2.09

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1940–2023
  • Kehoe & Nicolini1974–2017
  • ECLAC1990–2015
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2000–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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